BRODEN: School systems drive up busing expenses

3:44 PM,
Mar. 13, 2013

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Many families who live in Murfreesboro's outer edges have a choice between busing their elementary school children to either one of Murfreesboro City Schools' K-6 campuses or one the Rutherford County Schools' K-5 schools or middle schools that serves students in grades 6-8.

Most neighborhoods surrounding the county's crowded Blackman Elementary, for example, have buses to either that campus or to the city's overflowing Scales Elementary School. Many families around the county's Barfield Elementary ...